Recent News & Comments About affordable health insurance
Health Insurance Brokers Can Find Individual Policies
Health insurance brokers, who are paid a commission by insurance companies but are free to consumers, are busier than ever.
Affordable Health Insurance for Early Retirees
Retiring early? Don't let the question of how to get health insurance dampen your enthusiasm. There are affordable options and you can't be left out in the cold due to a preexisting condition.
Health Insurance Reform Will Require Increased Government Spending
Health insurance needs and the nation's health care tab will go up - not down - as a result of President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. That's the conclusion of a government forecast released Thursday, which also finds the increase will be modest. The average annual growth in health care spending will be just two-tenths of 1 percentage point higher through 2019 with Obama's remake, said the ...
Health Insurers Challenged for Blaming U.S. Premium Increases on Obama Law
The health-insurance industry was criticized by the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for “falsely blaming” premium increases on the health law signed by President Barack Obama in March.
Sebelius Calls On Health Insurers To Stop Misinformation And Unjustified Rate Increases
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association of health insurers, calling on their members to stop using scare tactics and misinformation to falsely blame premium increases for 2011 on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act. Sebelius noted that the consumer protections and out-of-pocket ...
Independent Ideas: Say no to mandatory health insurance
Mandatory insurance takes what's wrong with health insurance and makes it worse. It means higher costs, affordable insurance becomes illegal, and less incentive to please patients. Amendment 63 would block Colorado politicians from imposing mandatory insurance.
Centene's Celtic Selected to Provide Insurance Coverage Under New 'Healthy Texas' Program
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) today announced its subsidiary, Celtic Insurance Company, Inc. (Celtic), has signed a contract with the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) to provide affordable health insurance plans for Texas small businesses under the new Healthy Texas initiative. "Healthy Texas utilizes a state-funded reimbursement mechanism known as the ...
Overhaul's Effect On Health Spending Minimal, Government Study Says
The health overhaul and other recent legislative and regulatory changes will only modestly increase the nation's health tab through 2019, according to a government study published today, Kaiser Health News reports. The Affordable Care Act and several other major changes will increase the annual health spending growth rate by only 0.2 percent, while at the same time extending insurance to ...
Health Spending Growth 0.2% Higher Through 2019 After Obama's Overhaul
America's health care bill will rise as a result of President Obama's health care law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in March, according to an analysis from Medicare's Office of the Actuary, but by just 0.2% higher through 2019, and that includes an extra 32 million uninsured individuals gaining health care coverage. The analysis is published in the medical journal ...
Health Insurers Come Under Fire By HHS As Reform Provisions Prompt Rate Increases
Health insurers were blasted in a letter written yesterday by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as some aspects of health reform increase the price of premiums. Health insurers filing rate increases effective as early as the fourth quarter, starting Oct. 1, take into consideration new requirements by federal health reform. September 23 marks six months since Congress ...
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